Combination-tool.



0! E. BONNER. COMBINATION TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 23, 1905. RENEWED JUNE 17,1909.

29,82 1 Patented Aug. 3, 1909.

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SIATEd nrnnr orricn CLARENCE E. BONNER, OF CHRISMAN, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO 0. E. BONNER MANU- l ACTURING COMPAN Y,

OF CHRISMAN, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

COMBINATION-TOOL.

Application filed February 23,

To all whom it may concern:

it known that l CLAnnivcn Boxnnn, a citizen of the t n ed States, resicing at Chrisinan, in the county of Edgar and State of lllinois. have invented certain new and u eful Improvements in Co:nbination-Tllools, of which the following is t specification.

This III'Vlli'lOll relates to improvements in a tool tor use. by fence builders, line-nien and for general purposes on farms and in shops, where the driving of nails and staples, the drawing of same and the cutting and twisting of wires i: a part of the work to be done.

The device is a combination hannner, wire cutter, staple id nail puller, wire twister, and screw-driver, and the object of the invention i; to combine these parts in a 11in to produce a strong compact and prac il tool that can be niainifacturcd ecoiionr lish the (it the invention by the inecianisni illustrated in the accompanying ("rawi 1g in which Figure is a perspective view of my iinproved tool, showing the nail and staple pulling jaws in closed position. Fig. 2 is a side view of same showing the jaws open and Fig. 3 is an edge view of the tool.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views of the drawing.

lily improved tool is coinorised of two parts which are pivoted together in the manner shown in the drawing, and which parts are the exact duplicates of each other making it only necessary for lit in assembling them to turn the hainnier-portions of each in opposite d rections in order to secure a worliiing fit ot' the parts.

Ii: represents a handle-iucinber which is formed on one oi said 1 arts of my tool and is a circular plate integral with said handle This plate 5 has a central perforation to receive the pin 6 which forms the pivot that unites the two members of the tool. The plate 5 will be approximately one-half of the thickness of the handle t at its junction with the latter thereby providing a shoulder at that end of the handle. This shoulder will be curved on the arc of the circle of the same radius as plate 5, where it contacts with said plate.

it the side or plate diametrically oppo site the handle l is the integral jaw 7. lhis jaw is substantially double the thickness of Eipecification of Letters Patent.

1905, Serial No. 2 l6,938.

l l i I Patented Aug. 3, 1909. Renewed June 17, 1909. Serial No. 502,799.

the plate 5, the thickened portion being on the sine side of the plate as the thickened PUlilul'l of handle i, and the shoulder formed this in *rease is on the same curvature as The jaw 7 has the extension 8 to a hannner-head. The inating faces of ie two jaws 7 have the transverse grooves it) and also the grooves 11 at right angles and entering the grooves 10. The grooves 0 enable the jaws to or gage wires which will occupy said grooves while the tool is in use, and the grooves 11 form nail-seats, or in conjun "tion with the grooves form seats for the retention of the members of the staple when tool to be used for pulling the s nic. In order to facilitate the operations of the tool in a reaching and seizing of objects to be operated on, I provide the outware, swell in the forward face of the jaws as shown in the drawings, the greatest extension or said outward portions being on i the meeting faces ot the two ll and 15) represent notches in the periphery oi the plates 53. These are located diametrically opposite each other on a diametrica line which is oblique to the plane of the meeting faces of the jaws 7, whereby, when the two plates of the complete tool are assembled the adjacent notches of the two plates will be out of register with each other when the tool is in its closed position, but by opening the tool the said adjacent notches can be brought into alineinent with each other for the introduction of a wire therein and by the closing of the handles of the tool together the consequent movement of the notches out oi alinenient will cut the wire. lly making the notches I4 and 15 on t diainetrical line oblique to the meeting tacos oi the jaws the formation of the two members of the tool in like duplicate parts will insure the proper positioning of the notches to form a shears for cutting wires when said parts of the tool are assembled. The outer end of one or both of the handles It may be finished into a screw-driver as shown at 17.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and wish to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is A tool for the purposes specified, in two duplicate parts, each of which comprises a circular plate with central perforations for the introduction oi a pivot whereby the plates are pivotally united, said plates having handle extension from one edge, a jaw extension from the edge diametrically opposite the handle, transverse wire cutting notches between the handle and jaw extensions in diainetrical lines oblique to the plane of the mating faces of the two members of the jaw, said jaw extension having laterally extended hammer-heals, the forward faces of which are extended outwardly adjacent to their mating faces to form cooperating extension extractor-jaws of the same width as the combined width of the two circular plates, the mating faces of the two jaws having transverse concave grooves adjacent to the outer end of the aw forming in con junction an elliptic lanceolate openin and said jaws having like grooves extending outwar'dlyffroin the transverse grooves to forni an elliptic lanceolate opening the two grooves forming spurs or teeth between their adjacent ends.

In witness whereof, I, have hereunto set my hand at Chrisnian, Ills, Feby'. A. D. one thousand nine hundred and five.

CLARENCE E. BONNER.

itnesses E. E. Gamers, l H. G. OSBORN. 

